Ellen Melville is a beautiful suffragette who, at seventeen, wants passionately to experience all that life can give her. From her abandoned, impoverished mother she inherits only a capacity for love and this she freely gives when she meets Richard Yaverland, charming, experienced, a man of the world. But Richard is the illegitamate son of a powerful and frustrated woman. Marion Yaverland uses her own betrayal by Richard's father to imprison her son, creating a murderous bond which destroys everything it touches. The strugges of Ellen and Richard to survive the sins of their fathers takes its inevitable course: giving freely to her passionate lover, Ellen commences a re-enactment of all that has gone before.
- ISBN10 035346726X
- ISBN13 9780353467262
- Publish Date 13 November 2018 (first published 26 June 1980)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Franklin Classics Trade Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 494
- Language English